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Ezra54

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Registered: 2026-06-06

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Visual corrupted wallpapers & images (Intel GPU)

Hello everyone,

I have been experiencing a persistent graphical corruption issue on my Arch Linux system running GNOME for a while now.

### The Problem:
Random, severe, blocky vertical artifacts and pixelated line patterns cover portions of my desktop interface. This primarily and heavily corrupts my wallpaper background images, image tumbnails and even my system wallpapers and occasionally random application windows (such as terminal boundaries and title bars as shown in the screenshots).

The issue persists across multiple system restarts and updates.

### Screenshots of the Corruption: Here are samples of the wallpapers
       https://imgur.com/a/a3bnHEL

### Technical Specifications:
* **Kernel:** 7.0.10-zen1-1-zen
* **Session Type:** wayland
* **GPU/Driver Info:** 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
    Subsystem: Dell Device 051b
    Kernel driver in use: i915
* **Mesa Version:** OpenGL version string: 3.3 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 26.1.1-arch1.2
* **CPU Model:** Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2350M CPU @ 2.30GHz

Am new to Linux, any guide would really help.

I would appreciate any guidance on whether this is an issue with the older Sandy Bridge i915 kernel driver handling Wayland textures, or if there is a specific Mesa environment variable I should modify to fix this buffer allocation failure.

Thank you!

Last edited by Ezra54 (2026-06-06 15:20:13)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Visual corrupted wallpapers & images (Intel GPU)

This is a bug in the latest mesa version, see eg. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p2299868
It's apparently fixed in the upstream git

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Ezra54

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Registered: 2026-06-06

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Visual corrupted wallpapers & images (Intel GPU)

Solved I simply updated the kernel version which upgraded all my drivers too. Thanks, guesse ill just mark it as solved